In this interview Bikel discusses how her investigation began, offers some background on how it unfolded,
and talks about the most important lesson we should draw from these four case histories.

He was a judge on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
In the Roy Criner rape and murder case, Baird felt new DNA test results warranted granting
Criner a new trial. However, the majority of his fellow judges on the Appeals Court
disagreed.

He was imprisoned at Angola State Prison, Louisiana for 18 years. He
proclaimed his innocence in a rape case, but for nearly a decade his appeals
for DNA testing were blocked by state and federal officials. After his case
was taken up by Barry Scheck and the Innocence Project, a DNA test was finally
agreed upon. The tests came back negative for Charles and on December 17, 1999
he was released from Angola.

He is a former prosecutor and discusses in this interview why the criminal
justice system resists conceding errors and correcting mistakes.

She is on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. She wrote the majority opinion
in the Roy Criner case, ruling that new tests showing DNA evidence in the rape
and murder case was not Criner's didn't warrant granting Criner a new
trial.

A constitutional law professor at Columbia University, he discusses why the
criminal justice system often focuses more on procedural issues than on
fairness and justice. He also explains why the system's
refusal to examine cases of possible wrongful conviction points to a basic lack
of confidence in the system itself.

He is a law professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva
University and co-founder of its Innocence Project. The Innocence Project has
successfully exonerated over 35 inmates using DNA testing. Scheck is co-author of a recently published
book, Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly
Convicted.